In 2013, he presented the first edition of pUN: The People’s United Nations at Queens Museum in New York City. pUN is an experimental conference in which regular citizens act as delegates for each of the countries in the UN and seek to apply techniques and resources from social psychology, theater, art, and conflict resolution to geopolitics. pUN’s second edition took place at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2015).  The third General Assembly of pUN took place in December 2015 at the Museum of the 21st century in Kanazawa, Japan. In 2015, he received the U.S. State Department Medal for the Arts and the Ford Foundation Fellowship. In late 2016, he presented Doomocracy, an immersive theatre installation commissioned by Creative Time. He held a visiting scholar position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s for the fall of 2016, and conducted his residency at MIT’s CAST as the inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist. In addition to his artistic practice, Pedro Reyes has curated numerous shows and often contributes to art and architectural publications. He lives and works in Mexico City.

Yves-Alexandre was recently named an Innovator under 35 for Belgium (TR35). His research has been published in Science and Nature, and covered by the BBC, CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. His work on the
shortcomings of anonymization has appeared in reports of the World Economic Forum, United Nations, OECD, FTC, and the European Commission.

Yves-Alexandre has worked for the Boston Consulting Group and acted as an expert for both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations.

Sinan was the Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Times in 2013 and has worked closely with Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, Yahoo, AirBnB, Jet.com, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, SAP and many other leading Fortune 500 firms on realizing business value from big data analytics, social media and IT investments. Sinan’s research and teaching have won numerous awards including the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, the PopTech Science Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, the Jamieson Award for Teaching Excellence (MIT Sloan’s highest teaching honor) and more than ten best paper awards conferred by his colleagues in research. In 2014, he was named one of the “World’s Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40” and, in 2018, became the youngest ever recipient of the Herbert Simon Award of Rajk László College in Budapest, Hungary. In 2018, Sinan published what Altmetrics called the second most influential scientific publication of the year on the “Spread of False News Online,” on the cover of Science. He is also the author of the upcoming book The Hype Machine, about how social media is disrupting our democracies, our economies and our public health. Sinan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University, holds Master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard University, and received his PhD from MIT. He enjoys cooking, skiing and telling jokes about his own cooking and skiing. His most recent hobby is learning from his six-year-old son. You can find Sinan on Twitter @sinanaral.

In 1999, as co-founder, he served as the inaugural chair of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and continued in that position for 3 years.

After leaving public life, Mr. Martin advised the African Development Bank and has worked closely with the Advisory Council of the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa. He was also a founding co-chair of the Congo Basin Forest Fund and a Commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission.

In 2009, the Martin Family Initiative (MFI) was founded as a private foundation committed to improving education, health, and the overall well-being of Indigenous children and youth in Canada. Since its inception MFI has sought to walk the path with Indigenous schools and communities as they define their priorities and goals, bridging the gap between community needs and available resources and expertise. MFI accomplishes these goals based on the founding precept that every community and school should have the tools available to them to provide their children and youth with every opportunity possible. To this end, MFI gathers the most relevant expertise beginning with community-based knowledge to co-develop, support, and implement innovative programming and networks that centralize Indigenous ways of knowing. By working hand in hand with Indigenous people on the ground, MFI seeks to develop lasting programs that are created with and maintained by the communities themselves.

In 2012, he was appointed Companion to the Order of Canada.

He is married to Sheila Ann Cowan and they have three sons and five grandchildren.

Michelle Lewis is a fierce New Yorker now transplanted to Los Angeles, where she is a singer, songwriter, composer, and music creators’ rights advocate. From her early career as a recording artist signed to Irving Azoff’s Giant Records, to her first radio hit, Cher’s “A Different Kind of Love Song” in 2002, to the 2014 worldwide #1 single “Wings” by the British girl group Little Mix, Ms. Lewis brings authenticity, musicality, and heart to a diverse array of music projects.  

For the last decade, Ms. Lewis has branched out into the world of songwriting for animated television, most notably as a Peabody Award-winning composer of all original music for Disney Jr’s hit show, “Doc McStuffins” and Emmy-nominated songwriter of the beloved Nickelodeon series “Bubble Guppies.” She has over a half-dozen TV themes currently airing; including “Doc McStuffins,” “The Loud House,” “Muppet Babies,” “The Harvey Street Kids,” “Mutt and Stuff” and “DC Super Hero Girls.”  And just this past May, she won an Emmy for writing an all-musical episode of “The Loud House.”

In 2014, Michelle Lewis co-founded the non-profit creators’ rights advocacy group, Songwriters Of North America (SONA) in response to the ever-increasing complexities and disparities in digital royalties paid to songwriters and composers. And most recently – through her roles on the ASCAP Board’s Legislative Committee, as Executive Director of SONA and as one of the leaders of the #MusicArmy of songwriters, artists, composers and producers – Michelle was an instrumental force in the historic passage of the Music Modernization Act, which was signed into law in October of 2018.

As a scientist and engineer, Christine’s expertise is in the area of multiscale design and mechanics of biological and bio-inspired materials and manufacturing. She has over 180 scholarly publications and 30 national and international honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, presented at the White House by President George W. Bush. She is an alumni of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities for Science and Engineering (GEM) which provided her with a transformative fellowship and summer internship that enabled her to continue her education and career path. Christine serves on numerous boards, including the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

As a reporter for The London Review of Books, TIME, TheNewYorker.com, and Harper’s, Nick has embedded with the United States Army and Marines, the Afghan Special Forces, the African Union Mission to Darfur, and most recently, the Iraqi Special Forces during the battle for Mosul in 2017. Nick’s latest book, The Bodies In Person: An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars, was published by The Blue Rider Press in September of 2018. Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale, called it: “a gift to future historians and a gesture to moral philosophers. It helps us to see the world as it is while gently encouraging us to ask how it might be better.” Nick is a currently working with the international non-profit organization GiveDirectly on a cash transfer program aimed at the reconstruction of West Mosul.